Robert Walters Group

Established in 1985 by current chief executive officer, Robert Walters, today, the Robert Walters Group has an international network across 31 countries and locations.

Originally established to place accountants into corporates in London, the Group now recruits across multiple disciplines. In July 1996, Robert Walters was listed on the London Stock Exchange. A year later in 1997, it set up a wholly-owned subsidiary, Resource Solutions, offering recruitment process outsourcing services.

The company acquired Tristar, an Australian recruitment business in 1997 and merged with US staffing company, StaffMark Inc., in August 1998. The company demerged two years later, re-listing on the London Stock Exchange in 2000, and that same year won the Best IPO Award of Shares magazine.[1]

In February 1999, the Group launched its first global Salary Survey. The Salary Survey offers an annual insight into the salaries presently commanded in each market that Robert Walters operates in.[2]

In 2001, the company acquired Dunhill Management Services.

In 2005, the company launched a junior professional contract recruitment business in France, called 'Walters Interim' (now known as Walters People). Further Walters People offices were later opened in Belgium (2006), the Netherlands (2008), Spain (2017), Ireland (2019), the United Kingdom (2019) and Hong Kong (2020). In February 2008, the Group acquired Talent Spotter, a specialist recruitment business headquartered in China with offices in Shanghai and Suzhou.

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